{"id":1365,"date":"2010-01-03T16:49:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T23:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2010-01-03T16:49:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T23:49:21","slug":"the-blinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"The Blinker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are over and I&#8217;m back to my regular cocktail posting schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to kick off the new year with The Blinker, a cocktail based on rye.\u00c2\u00a0 Because, well, I love the stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 My inspiration for choosing this particular came from <a title=\"Anvil Bar and Refuge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anvilhouston.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anvil&#8217;s<\/a> list of <a title=\"Anvil - 100 Drinks to Try in your Lifetime\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3448\/3857165398_8677677677_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">100 drinks to try in your lifetime<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Reading the ingredients (rye, raspberry syrup and grapefruit juice) I was intrigued.\u00c2\u00a0 This mix of ingredients is not one that I would have thought to try together.\u00c2\u00a0 However, given that this drink was originally printed in 1934 and still survives today it must be a pretty tasty combo.\u00c2\u00a0 So, with that, let&#8217;s get mixing.<\/p>\n<pre><strong>The Blinker (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1592535615?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=cockthacke-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1592535615\">Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails<\/a>)<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" cgwtfzzahqnfndbzootb cgwtfzzahqnfndbzootb cgwtfzzahqnfndbzootb cgwtfzzahqnfndbzootb cgwtfzzahqnfndbzootb cgwtfzzahqnfndbzootb cgwtfzzahqnfndbzootb\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=cockthacke-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1592535615\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/pre>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>2 oz Rye\r\n1 oz Grapefruit Juice\r\n1 tsp Raspberry Syrup<\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>1) Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice\r\n2) Shake until well chilled\r\n3) Strain into a chilled cocktail glass\r\n4) Garnish with a lemon twist<\/strong><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are over and I&#8217;m back to my regular cocktail posting schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to kick off the new year with The Blinker, a cocktail based on rye.\u00c2\u00a0 Because, well, I love the stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 My inspiration for choosing this particular came from Anvil&#8217;s list of 100 drinks to try in your lifetime.\u00c2\u00a0 Reading the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}